Published on Tuesday, 20 July 2010 10:34 | Written by Patrick Cahill |

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Our technical section includes many technical articles from authors who have currently written for magazines including Race Car Engineering and 321 Ignition. These vary in knowledge level from how-to tips for people starting out to in depth scholarly articles delving into the most intricate subjects of modern race engineering.

Published on Wednesday, 16 June 2010 10:00 | Written by Patrick Cahill |

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Data and Dynamics offers a range of technical articles and seminars to help motorsport competitors to understand how to optimise both car and driver. By using tried and tested empirical methods, we aim to demonstrate how a little science goes a lot further in race car engineering than a bunch of old wives tales.

In one of my previous articles I wrote about the dangers of ready made simulation. In that article I explored at length the dangers of relying on others to do your modelling work for and how it can be very detrimental, not just if they get it wrong but the fact that it robs the end user the informative process of putting a vehicle model.

In any examination of vehicle behaviour quantifying the forces applied to the race car is one of the most important tasks the engineer has. Understanding the forces applied to the chassis is absolutely critical in determining what the car is going to do. The purpose of this article is to examine how the suspension elements translate braking and acceleration forces to the tyres and chassis. These are commonly referred to anti dive and anti squat.